This first-hand experience has provided me a valuable vantage point to analyze the constituting of global governance through the lens of international organizations, and experiences of beneficiaries on the ground.

Current Research Projects

The system of global environmental governance has been riddled by fragmentation and duplication of efforts, dispersed political authority and weak regulatory influence. The inefficiency of the system has been matched by a growing concern over the future provision of global public goods. A research network launched by Teresa Kramarz and Susan Park explores approaches to accountability to assess the necessity and potential for greater accountability in the system. To view the website for this research program click here

Think Globally, Act Locally? Accounting for the Local Costs of Global Environmental Benefits.

Using Ecuador and Argentina as my case studies, I take up the question of rational action in governing global public goods by analyzing why states sometimes agree to pay local costs for securing global public goods, such as mitigating climate change and protecting biodiversity.

Transatlantic Varieties of IR: Domestic Experience and the Study of the International (with Patricia Greve, University of Toronto).

We have constructed a database of publication patterns from 10 leading IR journals over the last 20 years presenting an empirical picture that suggests that European and American scholars focus, among other things, on divergent actors, geographic scales, and topics of study. We suggest that academics' domestic experience (with state‐society relations, institutions, and traditions, for example) socializes them into particular understandings of politics (with Patricia Greve).

Assessment of First Year Programs' Impact on Academic Engagement

The past decade has seen Canadian colleges and universities, belatedly, focussing more time, attention and resources on the first year experience. This research provides a baseline that can serve as the foundation for future and ongoing longitudinal studies to assess cumulative, long term and spill over effects of a first year program in qualitative and qualitative terms.

Kramarz, Teresa and Bessma Momani (2018) “Knowledge and Learning in the World Bank: Assessing the Role, Challenges and Prospects for a More Accountable IFI,” in John Kirton and Marina Larionova (editors), Accountability for Effectiveness in Global Summit Governance, Global Governance Series. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing.

Kramarz, Teresa (2012). “Partnerships in Global Environmental Governance: The Growth of a Procedural Norm without Substance” in Roldan Muradian and Laura Rival (editors), Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services. New York: Springer.

Non-refereed reports:

Kramarz, Teresa (2017). "Global Classrooms: A Fellowship Project." Center for Teaching Support and Innovation, University of Toronto.

Kramarz, Teresa and Jeff Burrows (2014). “Woodsworth One: Assessment of a First-Year Program’s Impact on Academic Engagement.” Program Evaluation for Woodsworth College and the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto.